How to get WebElement text with selenium

Question

See the following item:

<div class="success"><button class="close" data-dismiss="alert" type="button">×</button>
User 'MyUser' deleted successfully</div>

Find my item:

driver.findElement(By.cssSelector("div.success")

So, after that divwe get the text using selenium with getTextor getAttribute("innerHTML")return:

×
User 'MyUser' deleted successfully

So my question is how to get only the last line without this x

Answer 1

The text you want is present in the text node and cannot be obtained directly using Selenium, since it only supports node elements.

You can remove the beginning:

String buttonText = driver.findElement(By.cssSelector("div.success > button")).getText();
String fullText = driver.findElement(By.cssSelector("div.success")).getText();
String text = fullText.substring(buttonText.length());

You can also extract the desired content from innerHTMLusing a regular expression:

String innerText = driver.findElement(By.cssSelector("div.success")).getAttribute("innerHTML");
String text = innerText.replaceFirst(".+?</button>([^>]+).*", "$1").trim();

Or with a piece of JavaScript:

String text = (String)((JavascriptExecutor)driver).executeScript(
    "return document.querySelector('div.success > button').nextSibling.textContent;");

Answer 2

WebElement element = driver.findElement(By.className("div.success")
element.getText();

helps you get div text

Answer 3

:

driver.findElement(By.cssSelector("div.success").getText().replace("x","");